Ahmedabad: Timely intervention by the Gandhinagar police saved two schoolgirls who attempted to end their lives at the Narmada canal following the declaration of the Class 12 board results on Monday. One of the girls from Gandhinagar had failed to clear the exam, while the other had failed to get a good marks.Superintendent of police…
Ludhiana: The World MSME Forum has raised an alarm over the ongoing depreciation of the rupee, warning that the currency’s decline is placing unsustainable pressure on the nation’s industrial sector.Over the past year, the rupee has weakened by about 13% against the US dollar, a trend that is damaging particularly to micro, small, and medium…
TNN Chandigarh: The Chandigarh administration’s ambitious plan to develop a large concert centre in Sarangpur has run into environmental clearance issues. The project is stalled over pending permission to remove nearly 200 trees and other vegetation at the proposed site.The 25-acre venue, envisioned as a major events hub, cannot proceed with infrastructure development until clearance…
Pune: A set of twins and a 16-year-old boy drowned in separate incidents in the district on Tuesday.In the first incident, twin brother and sister Ganesh and Shravani Sable (both 11) had gone to a lake in Taleraon village of Junnar taluka, around 124km from Pune city. The children had reached the spot around 11…
Surat: India, as chair of the Kimberley Process (KP), will host an intersessional meeting in Mumbai next week where member countries are expected to debate proposals to expand the definition of “conflict diamonds” amid geopolitical and trade sensitivities.The Kimberley Process intersessional meeting will focus on widening the definition of “conflict diamonds”. Several member countries are…
Guwahati: AJP candidate Kunki Chowdhury, youngest in the fray, though faced a defeat at the hands of her rival candidate Vijay Kumar Gupta (70), a senior BJP worker, expressed gratitude to the people of her constituency for the support extended to her even though she was “new to politics” and “got less than a month”…
Lucknow: Shiksha mitras (para teachers) on Tuesday expressed gratitude to chief minister Yogi Adityanath for hiking their honorarium by 80% and making a provision for cashless treatment of up to Rs 5 lakh.Tej Bhan Singh, a shiksha mitra from Kasganj who was honored by the CM, said: “We thank the govt for restoring our dignity….
Rajkot: A special Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) court has convicted a 72-year-old former police inspector of Rajkot taluka police station in a 16-year-old bribery case, sentencing him to two years of rigorous imprisonment and imposing a fine of Rs 10,000.The convict, Chandulal Gosai, was found guilty of demanding a bribe from a suspect during the probe…
Bhilwara: Tonk police, Tuesday, arrested two men—brother-in-law duo—for allegedly shooting dead a 26-year-old constable during a poaching interception in a forest area of the district. The victim, Bhagchand Saini, posted at Kakod police outpost, was on patrol when he confronted the accused, who were allegedly hunting illegally.According to police, one of the accused, identified as…
NEW DELHI: A nine-judge Supreme Court bench led by CJI Surya Kant on Tuesday said the SC in 2006 should have outrightly “thrown in the dustbin’ the original PIL that led to quashing of Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple custom restricting entry of women in the 10 to 50 age group. “All India Young Lawyers Association’, which…
